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I'm a massive idiot and considering attempting to export an AE86 from Japan.
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Powershift posted:They sold AE86s here, and there a ton of them everywhere. The inconvenience of RHD isn't worth the "specialness" I don't live in the US.
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Aug 5, 2017 09:59
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Powershift posted:Well where would you export it to where they never sold em? It's not that they never sold 'em, it's just that there's none left that aren't hosed or 25 grand
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Aug 5, 2017 10:12
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that generation of soarer looks extremely badass
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Aug 5, 2017 23:39
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That's a 60 series, not an 80 I'm from NZ and I fuckin love 1980s japanese cars
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Sep 5, 2017 08:35
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Fermented Tinal posted:It is as unkillable and gutless as every other Toyota I4 from the 80s... and still manufactured. The 2.4 TD (2LTE) is absolutely killable, it's notorious for cracking heads, I wouldn't touch one with a ten foot pole unless it was intended as a donor vehicle for putting a 1KZ into instead
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Jan 17, 2018 05:26
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the NA 2L is extremely reliable though. as is the 3L.
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Jan 17, 2018 06:51
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Fermented Tinal posted:I've been doing some more reading about the head-cracking issue with the 2L-TE and apparently you can avoid it by getting an EGT gauge and keeping the temp below 1000F. There's the odd anecdote about re-routing the exhaust too, but from pictures I can't see how that would help. "apparently" is the key word there, I reckon
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Jan 17, 2018 20:44
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Ferremit posted:
It's the best dashboard design. 100% function
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Jan 17, 2018 21:52
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Fermented Tinal posted:I put that word in, because I have no experience with the engine personally. yah I've had mates with them in Prados who've read all the ways to prevent it on the internet and tried them and still blown heads
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Jan 17, 2018 21:53
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gimpsuitjones posted:It's the best dashboard design. 100% function 1985 also. and the Prado (xxJ78) dash changed when they went to the 1KZ in 1993 gimpsuitjones fucked around with this message at 08:50 on Jan 18, 2018 |
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Jan 18, 2018 02:10
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That PZJ70 has factory lockers too
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Jan 18, 2018 05:36
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Fermented Tinal posted:I just want the motor, hell, from either one. 1VD won’t fit in any old Cruiser chassis sadly Dream vehicle is a HDJ78 Troopy. But they’re impossible to find. Or a HDJ76 wagon but they’re not real
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Jan 18, 2018 20:59
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Weird, we’d call that a double cab on this side of the world
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Feb 6, 2018 02:18
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#2 is a Toyota Carib. AWD Corolla wagon, 4AGE.
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Feb 13, 2018 09:23
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yeah I think it's mostly wank though, people who read too many 4wd magazines or something. I've owned mostly Toyota 4wds and like them, but I'd have a Saf
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Apr 26, 2018 08:03
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KakerMix posted:Which is odd because this Prado is faster than the Rugger and the """""real""""" Land Cruiser. Real Landcruisers traditionally have been very slow.
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Apr 27, 2018 23:02
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Real Killer posted:Picked up my new BLACK JAP car I bought from a coworker in Las Vegas last month. 89 HJ60 he imported from Okinawa a few years back. Hhnnnn 60s are so so loving rad
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Jun 6, 2018 05:47
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Femtosecond posted:I meant to reply to this days ago but I haven't had the time to tally up my various expenses to date so I could write a more expanded post. Landcruiser Troopcarrier
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Jul 5, 2018 01:12
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Even a KZJ95 Prado is a (cramped) 7 seater and parts are a dime a dozen, and a better off-roader than a Delica
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Jul 5, 2018 01:38
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The 2LT/2LTE is terrible and should be avoided entirely (head problems). There are thousands of them in NZ and most seem to have had head issues 1KZTE has a bit of a rep for cracking heads as well, mostly on automatic gearboxes. Nowhere near as much as the 2LT though, and seems to be fine if you keep up maintenance to the cooling system and put in an aftermarket trans cooler in if auto. There are tens of thousands of 1KZs in NZ and most of them are fine. I don’t think Troopcarriers were ever jdm so may be hard to find ex Japan
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Jul 5, 2018 03:09
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Ooh that BJ73. Shame it’s not a 74 or I’d be talking to JCD right now
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Jul 5, 2018 04:49
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slothrop posted:Are you reaching the point where it’d be cheaper to import a good body/dead engine combo and swap the body onto yours? I dunno, mine isn’t really that bad, it would probably have been cheaper to sell it and replace before it failed a WOF on rust, but now that it has it’s gotta be fixed or it’s worth half as much to sell... and since the rust is mainly in bolt on panels it’s not terminal.
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Jul 5, 2018 20:32
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You can’t tell visually if a Toyota full float axle has a locking diff except by the switch in the dash. That truck has a semi float diff which doesn’t have rear hubs that extend like the front hubs (full float). Semi float diffs don’t have a LSD or locker option. Full float diffs could be open, LSD, or locker, you can’t tell visually
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Jul 11, 2018 20:01
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KakerMix posted:I don't know much anything about this sort of stuff so I am almost assuredly wrong. I was simply basing it on the last one I had: The white one has a full floater, but that could mean open, LSD or locker. They came with a weird and seemingly patternless mix of semi float or full float rears on the same model. Prados are all semi float
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Jul 12, 2018 09:45
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BlackMK4 posted:At least without looking under the truck, full floats have the elocker actuator sticking out of them Yup and older (pre 90ish) ones with lockers will have cable lockers
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Jul 12, 2018 09:46
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Ferremit posted:Just do what EVERYONE in Australia has to do, lean 4" further to get to the volume knob. This is true and I never noticed until just now
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Aug 12, 2018 08:20
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Drivers seat looks like it’s done more than 24,000km? Massive fan of 2 tone brown though
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Aug 27, 2018 20:36
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savesthedayrocks posted:Odd question, but do any of the Subaru/Toyota/Honda trucks have a bench seat up front for three people? I need a winter vehicle with 4 wheel drive but need to carry 3 people. I like the functionality of the truck, but guess I could do a van if I had to. Some Hiluxes did but good Hiluxes (utes, not Surfs) are hard to come by in Japan now.
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That’s a clone of the truck I learned to drive in. Like the 2.8 3L, the n/a 2.4 2L goes forever, the hilux we had with it had over 600,000km on it and that’s not unusual. Absolute slug though
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